Ross Evans

Yesterday, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) proposed a new rule that would narrow its joint-employer test, which would likely benefit franchisees, staffing companies, and business that utilize More »

As we covered yesterday, AFL-CIO president Richard Trumka recently questioned the feasibility of a trade deal that included Mexico but not Canada –a scenario President Trump has suggested is under consideration. Additionally, Trumka stated More »

On Saturday, The New York Times published an article detailing the historical context of Labor Day. In 1882, the first Labor Day parade was held in New York City, which was comprised of 10,000 workers on a one-day strike in efforts to obtain More »

New York City police officers rallied at city hall last week to protest the full year that they have been working without a labor contract (the prior labor agreement expired on July 31, 2017). Patrolman’s Benevolent Association (PBA), a union that repre... More »

Friday morning, the Metropolitan Opera reached a tentative labor agreement with two of its employees’ largest unions. The labor agreement is merely tentative at this point because it must still be ratified by the full membership of both More »

Yesterday, President Trump announced that he would be nominating Judge Brett Kavanaugh, currently of the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals, to replace the retiring Justice Anthony Kennedy on the U.S. Supreme Court. What could this mean for The Supreme Court’... More »

The NLRB ruled on Thursday that the Teamsters Local 385 in Orlando violated federal labor law by ignoring Walt Disney World employees’ requests to leave the union. According to The Associated Press, the NLRB’s decision required More »

Longtime liberal labor activist Ed “Oil Can” Sadlowski passed away on Sunday, June 10, after a years-long battle with Lewy body dementia. Mr. Sadlowski was elected president of United Steelworkers Local 65 at a mere 26 years of age, More »

On Sunday, the Brazilian government reached an agreement with striking truck drivers to end a seven-day protest that began last week. The strike is expected to cost the Brazilian government $2.6 billion by the end of the year. The truckers, More »

About OnLabor

OnLabor is a blog dev­oted to workers, unions, and their politics. We in­ter­pret our sub­ject broadly to in­clude the cur­rent cri­sis in the tra­di­tional union move­ment (why union de­cline is hap­pen­ing and what it means for our so­ci­ety); the new and con­tested forms of worker or­ga­ni­za­tion that are fill­ing the la­bor union gap; how work ought to be struc­tured and man­aged; how work­ers ought to be rep­re­sented and com­pen­sated; and the ap­pro­pri­ate role of gov­ern­ment – all three branches – in each of these is­sues.